Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults.
Responsibilities
* Promote safeguarding within settings, adopting a family approach, early help and prevention, advocating for the voice and experience of children whose welfare is paramount, and listening to adults to ensure a person‑centred and safe response.
* Support and respond to safeguarding enquiries from the whole workforce, including children and adult directorates, community & acute services, forensic and specialist services, and all support services including volunteers.
* Serve as a strong advisory and sign‑posting function, following systems and processes to manage concerns, referrals and individual cases efficiently.
* Liaise with operational services to reduce risk and concerns around safeguarding, conduct fact‑finding (e.g., via Independent Management Reports for Child Rapid Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Review), and advise on management, waiting‑list and discharge plans for complex safeguarding cases.
* Attend child and adult practice reviews and learning events, enabling learning to be taken forward in practice; follow up on referral pathways, including case escalation in support of teams and practitioners.
* Deliver a significant amount of safeguarding training across a variety of topics and formats (face‑to‑face, teams, planned, large sessions and bite‑size sessions) to meet the needs of the workforce.
* Provide reflective safeguarding supervision and debrief to optimise staff support and practice development.
Qualifications
* Must hold a full, valid UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle for business purposes (unless a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Equality & Diversity
We warmly welcome applications from diverse backgrounds and encourage applications from under‑represented communities for senior roles.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Apr 2026.
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